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Northern

//ˈnɔɹðɚn// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, facing, situated in, or related to the north; northerly.

    "Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages."

  2. 2
    Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised). British

    "Les Dawson was a famous Northern comedian."

  3. 3
    Blowing from the north; northerly.
  4. 4
    Characteristic of the North of England (usually capitalised) British

    "Les Dawson was a famous northern comedian."

Adjective
  1. 1
    coming from the north; used especially of wind wordnet
  2. 2
    oriented toward the north wordnet
  3. 3
    situated in regions of the north wordnet
  4. 4
    in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Northern Line of the London Underground.
  2. 2
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An inhabitant of the northern regions; a northerner.
  2. 2
    A steam locomotive of the 4-8-4 wheel arrangement.

    "Along the UP Trail, America's original transcontinental, mention of the 800's will long recall the capable, long-legged Northerns that were built for standard-weight limiteds but often doubled for diesels on the City streamliners."

  3. 3
    a dialect of Middle English that developed into Scottish Lallans wordnet
  4. 4
    The northern pike.

    "As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast eggs over several hundred yards."

  5. 5
    A genre of fiction focusing on the untamed northern territory of Canada and sometimes Alaska, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Canada
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  1. 6
    A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the north of North America, primarily in western Canada but also in Alaska, often with a Mountie as the protagonist.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn. Morphologically north + -ern.

Etymology 2

From Middle English northerne, from Old English norþerne, from Proto-West Germanic *norþrōnī, from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz. Cognate with Old High German nordrōni and Old Norse norrœnn. Morphologically north + -ern.

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